YMMV / Birdman (Jack Caffery #1)

• Complete Monster:
  • Ivan Penderecki, the series' only recurring antagonist, is DI Jack Caffery's next door neighbour and an utterly loathsome pedophile. Running a child pornography ring, Ivan partook in the sexual abuse of dozens of young boys and filmed the rapes to sell on to other members. Ivan also abducted Jack’s brother Ewan and rendered the boy brain dead by throwing him across a room when he tried to resist the rape, leaving it to his number two Carl Lamb to murder him. Realizing that Jack was searching for answers, Ivan waged a decades long campaign of mental cruelty against him: pretending to burn Ewan's bones on a bonfire; posting countless taunting letters to him; and even manipulating Jack's mentally ill girlfriend into giving him Ewan's toys so he could set them on fire in front of Jack. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Ivan decided to send Jack on a wild goose chase for Ewan's body as a final taunt and committed suicide to prevent him from getting any answers.
  • Malcolm Bliss is a sexually sadistic psychopath. Embittered against women due to his unattractive appearance, Bliss began serially raping women at a young age, claiming at least four victims every year. Meeting a woman called Joni and becoming sexually obsessed with her, Bliss decides to rape and mutilate dead prostitutes as a substitute. Roping a rich aristocrat called Toby Harteveld into his scheme, Bliss has Harteveld kill five prostitutes for him before mutilating each one and sewing a bird inside the chest to mimic the sound of a dying heartbeat, raping the remains as the bird suffocates. When the bodies are discovered, Bliss abducts an innocent housewife and forces her to see pictures of a child being raped, before mutilating her with no anaesthetic and dumping her in a dustbin. When Joni rejects Bliss due to his creepy behaviour, Bliss horrifically attacks her and, when Rebecca interrupts them, abducts them both. Attacking Joni and fatally snapping her spine, Bliss flees when the police corner him. Luring out DI Essex, Bliss slices off his limbs with a hacksaw, before gloating to Jack Caffery that he enjoyed torturing Rebecca to death.

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